Dear all,
I have recently replaced my old Mandrake 9.0 installation with Debian Sarge, and in general I am extremely pleased. However, I am having trouble getting gphoto2 talking to my Canon A80 (it is listed as a supported camera, and it worked fine before). I have tried e-mailing the gphoto list, but no response. I haven't seen anything yet on the lists or searching the internet. I sinerely hope that someone on the Debian list can be of assistance.
I am calling gphoto2 from the console, logged on as root (so it should not be a permissions problem) - I have yet to get round to the business of creating a camera group, etc. It has worked on just two occasions, and I don't know how I did this, it almost always returns an error. Please see my e-mail to the gphoto list below for further details. Moreover, I list the output from lsmod below, just in case that provides any clues - before and after a hotplug reset (they appear different for some reason).
Thank you!
Best wishes,
David Joyce

The first error is "canon_usb_lock_keys: Unexpected return of 0 bytes
(expected 820) from "get picture abilities." ", but then another re-try
produces the following error: "Could not apply USB settings". It then
requires a reset of hotplug to get it back to square one (via
"/etc/init.d/hotplug restart").

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had some trouble on an older sarge with gphoto2 recognizing my canon eos
300D.

solved that by installing usbmgr as repacement for hotplug. and usbview
just to see what i was doing.

the result: gphoto2 worked fine afterwards.

(nowadays as you undoubtedly know the developers added a camera-group so
that any user can download pictures from the camera)